A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. ~English Proverb
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. ~Bill Gates
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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Empathy is even better than talking in one language. ~Rumi
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
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People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. ~Stephen Rea
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I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. ~Bill Murray
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it. ~Justin Bartha
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I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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